Ellette Giselle

@ellette-giselle

Wow, that was an excellent response. It really has me evaluating some female characters I have. The points you make with C.S Lewis were great!!

@ellette-giselle

I like writing guys best too. lol.

Yes, a group of misfit dudes is so good. It’s like, the comfort food of fiction. 🥹

I’m moving a discussion I started into this thread. It’s kind of related.

@ellette-giselle @keilah-h

Basically, how far are you willing to disregard gender norms in stories, specifically tropes? For an extreme example, switching a “damsel in distress” for a “man in distress.”

@ellette-giselle

Oh okay, I’ll take it to another thread. Lemme figure it out.

@keilah-h @ellette-giselle

I think “damsel in distress” can very easily be messed up because it automatically takes away the damsel’s agency in the situation, usually speaking. But I would love to see situations where it isn’t so biased towards the damsel’s savior – like maybe the damsel holds the emotional weight of the story in her hands, to…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle Not likely with me, usually. If I don’t like something, I’m quite vocal about it.

You should see me yelling at the screen while playing Minecraft or something and my creatures aren’t going where I want them.

@ellette-giselle lolllll

I mean, if I don’t have anything to say, that means it must be good, right????

@ellette-giselle yeah it’s so much more reasonable when you have context and the proper meaning of the word is used (I’m sure you know all about the newspeak dilemma where people, especially important people, use one word when they really mean something else, in order to control or to convince others to do something they normally wouldn’t). I…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle wowwwww! I don’t know what to say. Will he die? will he live?? I must know!!!

also, a good idea would probably be to separate the writing in his letters out with an indent or with centered text as opposed to the normal look:

After some time, Aaron took up the quill and began to write, unsteadily at first, but growing…

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@ellette-giselle ok but HOW is a damsel in distress cool??

The whole “in distress” thing, from what I’ve seen, has kinda been turned into “I am a pansy and will faint or something at the very sight of blood or even a grasshopper.”

I really don’t think every female character should be the “rarrrr I’m a warrior and you can’t say no to that” kind…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle It’s not our fault soldiers are cool characters 🥺

@calyhuge @loopylin @keilah-h @ellette-giselle

Leo

He shifted Quincy higher on his shoulder. The kid sighed, tucking his fluffy blonde head against Leo’s neck. It looked like Quincy wasn’t waking up anytime soon.

“I’m Leo. I work here.” He smiled at Kate and Brian. “And this little monkey is Quincy, my kid brother.” Or at least, that’s what the…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle haha Rory’s in for a surprise if he thinks Hunter and the gang aren’t soldiers.

@calyhuge I think I said Hunter was 12 earlier, but apparently I made a mistake and he’s actually 13. Sorry everyone else! lol

@koshka @loopylin

Hunter

“Well, he startled me and I almost killed him at lunch the other day, and then we were in th…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

Aaron and Sabina planned the wedding quite quickly after he proposed, but there’s nothing wrong with that. A) This is a different culture than ours and, B considering the fact that danger is lurking around the corner all the time for them now, so it makes sense that they would want to get married before something happens.

Oh,…[Read more]

@elishavet-pidyon thanks lol

and yeah, I was honestly surprised by how fast I got through the books. I thought they were longer. It’s been a little while since I’ve read them.

They’re still as awesome as the first time I read them though.

@ellette-giselle

I don’t know why a centaur. I think I just wanted to see if I could draw a fairly…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

Oh my gosh girl I’m dying over here😂😂 In more ways than one apparently🤣

We were so in sync, I think we must’ve posted at pretty much the exact same😂

Anyway lol how are you doing??

@theducktator

Wow. That sounds quite eventful.

@rae

Congrats!

@ellette-giselle

I don’t draw dogs.

ever.

Didn’t you post a pic with a dog in it just, like, last week on the art sharing forum?

@highscribeofaetherium @grcr @ellette-giselle @rae

I loved all of these sooo much! They were all so cute! It’s sooo much fun seeing everyone’s drawings of my character!!

Highscribe: First off, I loooove the dog stickers, and her little wave is super cute. Her hair is a bit darker than I imagined though. She’s so sweet!

Ellette Giselle: She i…[Read more]

@keilah-h @ellette-giselle @koshka @loopylin

How old is Hunter? My characters are 16 rn

Kate

“Where do you know him from?”

Brian chuckled at the memory. “Well, he startled me and I almost killed him at lunch the other day, and then we were in the relic class. You know, the elective that only had one class before the teacher was kicked…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle @koshka

Here it is!

In which Aenwest gets lost inside her head, and dwarves need manners

Chapter 2

Travenor walked quickly. I scurried through the woods behind him, feeling remarkably like a squirrel trailing an elk. Sunlight streamed down through the leaves around me, creating a world of green and gold. Birds sang above us…[Read more]